
WORKING TO PREVENT DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE

The Close to Home model encourages our community to create solutions and lead social change to support healthy relationships and prevent domestic and sexual violence.

Whole
Community
Engagement
Community Assets & Strengths
Fierce
Commitment to
Community
Creative Action
For All
Social Change
Beloved Community
Network
Leadership
Powerful
Relationships
Patience
& Persistence
The Close to Home Approach
The 9 Close to Home Principles
A FIERCE COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY
We believe that community organizing is most effective when led by community members who live, work, and play in that neighborhood, town, or cultural/identity community. Others involved in the work—including the initiating organizers/organization—participate in the process first and foremost with humility, a spirit of learning, and a commitment to that community. Together, everyone sees the community as greater than the sum of its parts and shares the following qualities of heart and mind:
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Reverence, love, and esteem for the community
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Profound respect for the knowledge and wisdom that exists there
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Belief in the community’s ability to be the author of its own transformation

A way to shift individual behaviors, relationships, and social norms to create a safer community.

A framework that allows youth and adults to work together toward a shared vision.
